It’s not often that I’m genuinely shocked by political news, but this has done it for me.
Ukip are still around?!
Seriously, why do they exist? The whole point of the party was to get the UK to leave the EU, and that’s happened. Reform is the new UKIP.
On the one hand :
On the other hand, yeah, farage and the other fascists are looking to re-use fascist symbols. I’m surprised he didn’t just bring back the fucking BUF lightning bolt
A cross pateé in most contexts doesn’t seem nazi, but in politics it definitely does
The lightning bolt got grabbed by an American bus company of all things https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoltBus
Such British “patriots” that they resort to dog whistling German symbolism.
Well, at least they’re being open and honest about their true colours now. The “centrist moderates” who can’t seem to tell the difference between any parties and flip flop between whoever has control over their Instagram/TikTok algorithm of the day, might finally realise who they’ve been supporting.
How far did it go? Article says it was proposed in November
The original version was rejected, but they’ve submitted a new and nearly identical application that hasn’t gotten a decision yet. The first one had a sword crossed with the spear
Cringe
You’d think the UK would be better at beating Nazis given historical precedent and all
